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| TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1898. ARRACRIPTIONS TO THE EVENING WORLD ©). Batered ot the Post-Ofice at New York os ; ocond-class matter, a - OFFICES: 5 UPTOWN OFFIOB—Jenction ot Bread: ay (90d Sixth ave af 900 ot WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—1sth ot asd Melt- ‘fon are. BROOKLYN—100 Washington ot PHILADELPHIA, PA. —Prees Bulléing, 192 Chest- mut ot WASHINGTON—Tos 160m ot. ‘igs E WORLD'S GREATEST CIRCULATION MONTH -+- AVERAGE WEEK-DAY CIRCULATION FOR JANUARY, 1895. dd1,139 More than Fifty Thousand -. Over Half a Million Per Day. Th DOWT FORGET GREATER BEW YORK. In all the confusion incident to the @peration of extracting genuine reform from a reluctant Legislature, it ought Mot to be forgotten that the people have issyed an express mandate for Gre: New York. The importance of this mat- ter far exceeds that of any other single Measure before the Legisiature, New York can reform itself with the laws it hes if the Legislature refuses ‘to pass new laws. The criminal courts ‘and @ non-partisan Police Board can Peorganisze the police without legislative fesistance, if needs must. But to exe- “3 ute the people's decree tor Greater New + York, legislation ts necessary. It fs strange that a Legislature elected ‘by the people should have so long tg- 4% Lat them take the consequences. Tt fe said that this would put the coun- try on @ silver basis, but if it did the first sufferers would be not the Govern- ment or the people but the banks. And ‘Will the benkers cut their own throats for the sake of the petty gain of a pre- raium on the gold in their vaults? ‘That they want that premium ts evi- dent. To get jt they have hoarded mill- fons of gold. But they have it already. ey have acared the Government into issuing nearly $200,000.00 in bonds, the enormous profit on which has been prao- tically @ premium upon the gold they haye taken from the reserve. They will continue this process an long as the Government will continimto scare, but they will drop tt very quicly when the Government drops its scare and notifies them to do their worst. “Bo long as the Government attempts to maintain the gold reserve the bank- ers Are sure of thelr profits on the re curring bond Issues, but let the Govern- ment leave the gold reserve to take care of Strelf and the bankers will stop thelr raids, for to exhaust it would be to kill the goose that lays them golden egas. The bankers have bluffed many mill- fons out of the Treasury during the past year Now let the Government do the | bluffing, Let Congress annul the bond contract and forbid any new ones. ‘Who more safely than Uncle Bam can say, “What are you going to do about itz" SRAZEN BANDITRY AT ALBANY. The infirna’ nuisance and mischief of Mored the wishes of the people expressed ‘pen the same ballot that elected it. Phe delay should last no longer. ANOTHER PLATT “LEAD.” i ‘The following rather remarkable state: { ents ooour in an editorial article in the Rochester Post-Express: ‘There te good authority for saying that Mayor Wrong mate only two direct pledges before his é lection, im order to secure political support. , ‘He and his asscctates promised te protect Supt. Byrnes om condition that he would make certain polles changes for election day, They also prom- faed in retyrn for the support ef the liquor men ‘Cat the Liquor interests should be taken tare of. ‘That these utterances should come in guch a matter-of-fact way from Roches- ter’s distance is evidence that the sub- tance of them has been widely circu- lated in the State, It ts» proper, there- fore, to.give them some such attention as, from New York's best standpoint, they do not call for, First, then, for the information of our ‘Rochester contemporary and others that may have been similarly misled, it {s to 4 tbe remarked that there is no authority 2 whatever for the statement that Mayor Strong made any promises to “protect” Byrnes; and, second, there 1s excellent authority—the Mayor's own—for a posi- tive Genial that he made any pledges to ‘the liquor interests, In fact, the city i. has received and accepted the Mayor's @eclaration that the only pledges he Made before. his election were those which he {s now striving to the best of his ability to carry out—pledges given to the people to conduct a clean-handed, businesslike, honest administration of municipal affairs, ‘The circulation of such statements as those quoted from the Rochester paper @uggest the idea that the Platt literary @nd ant!-reform bureau {s running some Ghrewd side-lines in connection with its open laudation of the Tioga boss and its Ancldental abuse of Dr. Parkhurst, the Seventy and others. haa IT OUGHT TO BE STOPPED. TR is a great pity that Congress has Bot the grit left to step in, even at thislast Moment, and forbid the execution of the bond contract by which the Secretary of the Treasury sells for 104 bonds that re already in demand at 115. It has been the misfortune of this Con- ress never to do the right thing except at the wrong time. It has never hesi- tated to defy the will of the Administra- tion and thwart its plans when those plans were obviously for the public good, It refuses now to interfere when the Administration plan is a scandal and @isgrace to the Government and a detri- ment to the public credit, It is said that to break the bond con- tract would result in a raid on the gold Feserve, its exhaustion and the ruin of the public credit, How can you ruin the eredit of « nation that has to accept 404 fur bonds for which petty citles and corporations even can get from 107 to 20? Is the credit of a nation with more than a billion dollars debt to be Saved or ruined, according to whether there is ox 1s not @ petty $100,000,000 or * #0 in gold in the Treasury? The law Tequires the Government to maintain the parity of gold and silver, and the Government proceeds to do this by pa ing o large premium for gold in pref- erence to silve: ~ | Let the bankers raid the gold reserve Sf they will. What good will it do them? ‘When the gola is all gone, pay out ail- Ver, Will anybody refuse to take it? ‘Will the banks reject it? The Govern- has made an honest effort to pro- the recerve. The banks have thwart- i Doasinm were never better iLustrated than shey are in the present row between | the Plattites and Mayor &tron) The! Mayor has offended Mr, Platt and his so-called straight-out Republicans by the method he has taken of distributing municipal patronage, and now the news- papers ring with threats made by Platt and his wang that they will get even with the Mayor by holding up all legis- lation intonded to benefit New York and kill with studied neglect every measure in which the hopes of the metropoll friends have been for so long centred. If Mr. Platt can carry out his threats, and New York, as well as the whole Empire Btate, is really at the mercy of such selfish and unscrupulous political banditry, to what a miserable and pitia- ble condition have we been reduced. It took considerable expert investigation to get at Tammany's despicable way of doing things, but Platt and his gang are brazener and more desperate tn their assertion of a plunder policy. Viattism must rule, though New York suffer. AMERICA STILL IN HER TEENS. Shaking Grass, « full-blooded Iroquols,, ted at his home in Broomo street yes- terday, and goes to his final rest in Greenwood Cemetery to-day. A toma-| hawk will be buried with his remains | and Indian ceremonies will be performed at the grave, Bhakin; Grass was sixty- five years old. He fought In the late civil war and was a member of the G. A R How this little bit of news carries us back to the days celebrated by Fenl- more Cooper the days of the red man | of romance and the infant days of the Republic! Here 1 Manhattan Island with {ta palaces and spires tellling an Ala¢din-like story of wealth to the skies and the Empire City standing at the gate of this mighty continent a symbol for all that {s splendid in New World civiliza- ton, and yet the Republic ts so young that the echo of the aboriginal savage atill rings {n our ears and a sniff of the pioneer forests comes to our nostrils through the Indian ceremonies over old Shaking Grass's casket. AFTER THE PANTATAS' GOLD RESERVE Our poor, poor police! Inn't it a pity that they should be harassed and bam- foozled and beemirched so? For months they have been targein for ridicule and ac- cusation, and whea the Lexowing 1s over and the extra Crand Jury ts raking thetr reconis fory and aft, we are startled with the terrible information that some women have been blackmail- ing or attempting to blackmail men high up in the Denirtment. We hope it isn’t true, How could @ay woman fo far depart from the ten- der-heatredness and hero cult of the #ex as to try to extort money from our hard- pushed police? We can sce how ft might be, though. ‘The tales of wonderful | wealth bullding some of the captains and inspectors told in the Lexow wit- ness chair—the Herrmann-like presto-alle- gro-come-hereo manner in which they pulled fortunes out of the air, were cal- culated to inspire the witdest eupidity, Perhaps some dream-brained woman | thought she could frighten some of thelr | gold reserve out of the police. Poor, foolish woman! Poor Scheherazade-out- | dotng police! | A bill at Albany provides for the ap- propriation of $8,000 “to study and cir- cumvent the Insect pests in the grape and cruit district,"" Doubtless the object to be achieved ts a worthy one, TBut| there is a greater work to be dono in the insect extermination line, and one | which can be accomplished with the ap- | propriation and expenditure of nothing but @ little legislative grit. The big bugs of boxsism are to be wiped out, from the Ridiculous Koss downward, According to the present outlook, the Sugar Differential Duty Repeal bill ts | Ukely to perish with the present ses-| sion in the Senate. Only appropriation | bills need now apply. The Senators are | faithful to the Trusts to the last, Another little one added to the hero lst, Fifteen-year-old Lillian MeMullen perished yesterday in Peconic Bay after rescuing two younger companions who had broken through the ice and were| drowning. Farmer Dunn has been lecturing on the weather. If he would only lecture the weather we had here about ten day ago perhaps it wouldn't be in such a hurry to call on us again, Judging from the press descriptions, the woman's yarliament at Washing- ton is the most truly democratic gath- ering that recent years have brought about in this country, “Mr, Platt, by arrangement with Gov. | Morton, will start for Albany at 1 o'clock to-day. He expects to return to- morrow.” Beware, Governor, the Ri- diculous Boss, | What do Brothers Harrison, Reed and | McKinley think of the spectacle of New York's Ridiculous Boss holding up the ‘9 nomination as @ glittering bait for Gov. Morton? Police Justice Grady {* not a bright oraament of the vench, but he displayed @ large degree of common sense in bis | the Jopment of theae difterences that a A DAILY SINT FROM MDOUGALL, A New Yorker Trying to Re Gas Bil by New York treatment of Sunday billiard players whom he discharged because the evi- dence was that they had made no noise and had disturbed nobody while at their game. Lord Rosebery's late majority of twenty was yesterday cut down to ten. ‘The Premicr will have to look out for the next paring down, Away gora La Gascogne again, to- morrow. A speedy and e#afe voyage to her. May !t prove that her troubles are over for good and all. If Now York's reform legisiation ts “hung up" at Albany, {t will have lots of company on the political scaffold, a Httle lat The baseball prophet has resumed business. ‘The fate of De Voe and other weather guessers doesn't seem to act as a deterrent, ‘The Giants are to report to Manager Davis, to-morrow, and to start South on Tuesday next, Is it well with all the rooters? Now that Sorosis has taken to the study of bees, honeyed phrases should be the rule at the Koclety meetings. Tt 1m understood that Frenchmen would lke “Trilby” better If there were not #0 many English sentences used, “The Contes- should make If Platt ever repents, sions of a Ridiculous Bo: entertaining reading. More good marine news: The City of Bt. Augustine, twelve days overdue at this port, is safe The Ridiculous Boss should discover what the moment he declared war the war was over. Free silver now has the freedom of the Benate—always subject to the Benate rule George Washington Aldridge has begun to do it with his little hatchet. Now let Albany show the Ridiculous Boas Just how ridiculous he ts, It seems that even Mayor Strong has @ bib, big D for occasions “Platt to know his fate.” Here's that he may know the worst! ‘The Count T.0. P. Johannes ef Politice— “ Hark, hark! the dogs do bark."* —-—— FATHER KNICKERBOCKER? DIARY, Feb. 18, '05.—The news from Albany to-Gey bas apparently justified the amusement, rather the jarm, whicn I yesterday expressed myself as eling over the Platt conference and Geclaration of war, It ts declared on good authority that the Tioga Boas will Anu little aympathy among out- aide Repubitcan legislators in hie campaign against Mayor Strong It ts Just as T suggested fn an entry in my diary a few days ago, Many of the men who wei apparently close followers of the Boss were attached to him only because of the power he was supposed to exercise here ta New York City, It nested only that he should be faced down by a firm man, as he has deo by Mayor Sirong, to start @ serious dis aMoction in what he aoltd es 8 Tho dullest man tn polltice could mot help seeing at Platt show of ther be a: 4 his conterrees mate @ miserable vos on Sunday, and he will not fous to belp on ac ance of the circum ‘The Republicans of the State are discovering rapidly, in these days, the essential 4) between the now tottering Hoss of the party and overthrown tn the F Conkling, who Fevolt againat bossiam tn 1882. It te the devel @ one of the most Int Present party Aight ° . Conkling was a real leater, @ thinker and ma to me to! ting features of the an WELLIB BLY SATS: 1 hese Go mauch about the employed having no Joralty for their employers. Whe says anything about the employer having mo loyalty for bis enplovess? No one. And yet thin ta the secret of the whole trouble. There f# almost no loyalty among em- ployers, and the knowledge of that fact is rap Ady Killing the loyalty of employees and swelling the ranks of labor unions ‘The wite breach which hes arisen between the employers and the employed ie due to thie lack ot loyalty. The employer lacked tt and bie hard and unfair treatment taught the employed to forget tt. Falthful gervice deserves faithful reo- ognition, an the small gum paid for @ man's hire does not end the employer's obiteation any mote than the employee's obligation ends when die day's work 18 gone, Te te a ghastly thing to think of work! © man merely for the amount of money he pays for the service rendered—the employer having the ame fecling for bis workman as he has for the atrest car for which he pays five cents to carry bim, or the workman to have the same fesling as the street car for the man who pald for the service. There must be more—a loyalty, Hing of regard, @ bond that makes the bu And success of the employer the pride and of the employed. It ts not the servitude of & frightened slave, nor the assistance of am infifferent foe, but common beneft—one gtvt ©@ work, and one working for the other's success, and both acknowledging common Intereste and common benefit, tor ee ‘There te @ faithfulness tn labor that f0 a good thing to have and nouriyh, It te an fil thing to remind the employed that business {a business, cold and merciless and deviod of sentiment. Tt Wa a dangeroun doctrine to inatil 19 the minds of working people and the employer who does tt {a making a great mistake, Make the employed once belleve that business ta business, without sentiment, without loyalty, and see where ihe employer comes out. It ta not aimply work tor which @ man is hired, but ta the thousand Iittle things that money could not hire done that the falthful employee proves, his loyalty. Tt fe thie putting employers on the cold, busl- fess, money-making basis that causse so mu trouble between labor and capital. How much trouble would there be if @ man could go with his grievance to his employer, and that employer felt nis interesta common with hie workman? we would not need labor unions to force simple riahte | . But {t's the corporations, greet money-graap- {ng machines, headless and heartless, that stand ke grit unrelenting fate over the wage-earner, crying, ‘Business 1s business, and rs gentl- ment, that are hardening the heart of the Ia borer, killing hte loyalty, erushing the senti- ment from bis heart, until he glares back at the ahadow, as grim and defiantly, and retorts with sullen threat, “Yes, business 18 business, and mo sentiment. Raise my ‘The feeling of ‘syalty dies, and the man learne to give only that for which he ts paid. His eer- ‘vice In not eo good, but his employer is to blame, “Take 1t.”" the worker says angrily. “It's what you taught No loya'ty, no sentiment. Like you 1 will give as little and get as much as I can. If I fail in the smallest, you will throw me out: if you cffend where I can reach you, I will report. you to my labor union, It Is not man to man, each dealing right and Just by the other. Tt te get as much as you can for an little, from bitter enemies, for—business fa business and no senti- ment" NELLIE BLY, — GREAT MEN OF OUR OWN TIME, This young man has been called a hy more than once, but he ten't, although he doesn't Feprexont as big @ town as New York. He hae deat to do with the metropolis, hower e he's the chairman of the Cities Com- mittee of the Assembly, and all lextslation fecting the biggest city tn the State bas to run the gauntlet of his critictm, He halls from Mi roe County, and the people of Rochester, which ‘nthe legal seat of that county, have sent him] j{2 Albany three timen to represent them. He ti # brainy w young fellow as his expansive dome of thought suggests, There ta no keener wit thi his in the lower house, and in debate he mys Jot of bright things in a way that Bone Platt | must admire, He te thirty-fve years old and a | very genial young man. It te true that he smokes |clxarettes, but then they're not of the common fort, and he 4 you, bi | TALE OF REFORM AND THB @. 0. P, A Mayor he would reforming go, Bing heighs, says Rowley; Whether his party would let him of no, With a rowley, powley, gammon and spina. Hetgho, says Anihony Rowley. So he kopt bis tteas well under Bie hat, Heigho, says the Seventy; And be took care never to dine with Platt, With « rowley, powley, da, | And when he got into the City Malt, Helgho, aye Hackett; The office secke: 2 to call, With a rowley, powley, &e. -| “Pray, Mr. Mayor, we come to sea, Heigho, eaye "Oui! ‘What you will do for the G. 0, Pm With @ rowley, powley, &o, eator, Platt, his ‘Me, too, A muccessor, 9! “Pray, Mr. Mayor, ance you rum the town," @ Hose pure and simple; a politcial trickster, mot | Hoigho, maya Patterson; 4 deep thinker, with a shrewdness of the sort} ‘Why o you turn the Republicans down? hat frequently overveaches tt as exidenced| — With a rowley, powley, &e. fn this holiing out of @ promise for 1896 to attach Gov. Morton firmly to bls cause, Whatever mistake Conkling made, they were not of that sort. The only point that that of personal selfta se—the nal love of ho! ing tt, with. oft to self. But, unless appearances fail, the reconds of the two men w Each will ha ke Im another particular downfall, —— wE STATE BITS, Pine Hill is agitated over the prospect of hi EMP! absurdity and tn hie ne two men had tn common was | king of power t thought of deneft to the State or pecuniary | But wntte they 401 rine and emir, Mia Honor gave Brookfeld t With a rowley, powley, Publie Werks, rs ata meeting, grim war declared, Melgho, says Lexoy He tried to put Strong ims territe pithy, Helgio, says Morton; + | But the supported (he Mayor tm the ght, With a rowley, powiey. && And the G. 0. P, Boss, although backed ap by Hackett, Heigho, eaye Parkhuret; (sana Roee Eins fohaees eal ase pou Avura's young women are Reldiog “xatmple| with s'rowter, powter, 6 aise Alberta Simon, of the Woot hore tate, |% MTS Tas the en at. 0. F. row, rho: office a! h eT ses eye! secon | ‘With @ rowley, pow! mmon and spinach, ha tapiivos Lbs: ess Daetees eens At Hudson nae died trom drinking red ink, for| — Mtsh® mye the Pree and the 5 A Which she had a @dness ae Port Byron women got out Chronicle of that village last neat om the 16th oyed on th the nat. an: One of the upiowe men when they go to see thelr best girl Js to etick hairpins through their overcoats, which, of course, are always family after they reach home, commented upva. okes played on tere of and will The Paper consiete of | en by members of thelr end bilarioualy ————e—__ A Winter Lesson, Yo who are warm, forget not 1m your thought The frlendiese~praye tn all their need; Bid gladness be their guest, wiih comfort fraught For ‘tis your helping hand and not your creed Brings awift relief, @ chill the Winter blast! While yet th his weary Or woman croons wr tagot's blaze—the last! Give mot © stone, but bread of life instead. | i arthur Elwell Jeaks, pad, THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING: FEBRUARY 19, 1905' Bvening World's Gallery of Living SENATOR GRAY, OF DELAWARE ‘This is the picture of Senator Hill's new ally in the upper house at Wash- ington in the defense of the Admin- fatration's latest bond proceedings. THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. Gossip Here, a Hint There and True Tales of City Life, T wonder if it ever occurs to the managers of the Blevated Railroads in Brooklya that the Gense volume of smoke and vile odors allowed to Accumulate in the tear end of the emoking car om their trains could be induced to get out of {ta own actord if only given a chance. Every seat in the care ts eccupled every morning on the downtown trips by . passenger who keepe alight @ pipe, cigarette or eigar of quality rang- ing from Havana to Connecticut and back again. The volume stores {teelf of each ‘‘emoker,”” and when the train gets to the bridge it takes @ keen eye to sve further than half way down the aisle. ‘The car ventila- tors are always carefully cloned and the stale which were more valuable to the owner than the money was lost In the Empire Theatre on a re- cent Monday night. It was restored to the owner on the following Wednesday with {ts contents isturbed, Tt had been whut the seat on the @ret night, shaven out upon the floor the second night, and picked up by the woman who wept that section And one of the pleasantest things about the matter te that the woman got $20 reward fur her part ta the tranasction, Tt te rarely the case that property lost in a New York theatre fa lost for good. The finders, Usually attache, turn thelr pickups over to the theatre offices, where they are left to await claimants, As a consequence some of the of- fices become the centres of strange collections of Personal belongings. A gentleman who recently lomt his eyegianses in an auditorium was invited Rext morning to select his ewa out of about forty pairs of “specs” in am offlce drawer. Count Hatsfeld recovered, also from a theat: office, a valuable opera-giass adorned with family crest. aie All the armortes of the National Guart tn thie city, especially that of the Seventh Regime: have been haunted by canvamers of a dozen or more photographio concerns since the boys eame back from the ‘Battle of Brookly: hibit an shots troops during the trolley strike campaign, and have been driving a brisk and proftable trade on drill nights, when they le in wait for the members of the various companies and make their most attractive displays It goes without saying that prices are somewhat exorbitant, ranging from 60 cents for = small three by five 1 te $1.80 for a ve Onief Rngireer Eugene Martin, of the French Umer La Gascogne who next to Capt. Baudelon fe being made the hero of the hour, is a quiet and unassuming olf gentleman of aldermanic Proportions and mild features, which are adorned with @ snow-white mustache mutton-chop wide whiskers, When not togged up for eom- pany tn his resplendent dress uniform he wears & battered olf poajacket, a thick woollen muf- flor and @ pair of wooden sabots, in which he Jumps Rotaily about the decka He maintains that hie sabots are the most comfortable things tm the world for every-day wear on shipboard. ‘THE GLMANER, ——__~ TO JACK. ‘You Jace, you are right ‘Tie the very came rose You gave me the Whea you told without me, And vowed you would never deceive me nor doubt me Its Deauty soon faded; Its freshness was gone, ‘And all that remained was remembrance alone; ‘Twas the seal of a love pledged forever to last, So I preased tt and kept it—e dream of the past, vee still some color dis- yening you deigned to propose; hat Mfe would be worthless Just a 204, fated hint of a happter day; From the poor withered but still some perfume te throw ‘To tell of the fragrance while Iife was Mts own, flo the love, once eo prised, though as dead as the rove, StiMl retains some eweet tokens os tender as thooe, To soften the pain xf ite tears and ite sighs, ‘As pressed twixt the pags of memory It lea, But you think we might bury the past ‘The love we once fancied so earnest and trun An, no! My dead rose cannot Dlossom again— We should seek for the love that bas perished tm vain. Tt has vanished forever—tho first and the lasts Let it rest! And around the pressed leaves of the past Let the memory cling of s happier bows, ‘As the fragrance still breathes from my poor with- ered flower. CONSTANOR M. LEVIN, —_ FROM THR JOKE-BAG, Some American Hu Mingl with a Little English Wit. Of *ousen to let’ ‘There be thousands; and yot You may search London over, and search all tn vein, Bre the tidings you'll get Of @ dwelling to let ‘Walch te more than “‘three minutes from tram and from trata.’ Ally Sloper, Which Is Het “John, de you know much about the Astorst* "A ttle Why? Tread something tm the paper about ‘the Astor tramp.’ Which ene of the family to het’— Lite, ‘MR, MALTWUS OVER AGAIN. Here Are Mere People Whe Think There Are Toé Many Children. To the Béitor: I wish people wouldn't quote the Bible te sup- port of thetr silly “arguments in favor of large familien, fimes have shanged since then, and people bave to hustle for all they get if + man nowadays buys @ sult of clothes or a thing else, without the means to Into prison, But Produces a dozen chiléren, Fun about the streets, and have to be edu- cated at the public expense, the law does not unish bim for his eriminsl folly. Thus the columns of the newspapers are daily choked advertisements of young whe are afraid of work,” and who are ‘willing to do anything’ for any miserable pay that will pre- vent death coming to their relesse, If by any ince they earn enough to support @ wifi Porlence teaches them nothing, and they go and follow in thelr parents’ footsteps Some time ago ‘The World opencd its columns to s dis- cussion of the question why people living Cherry Hill had so many children compared with those living on Murray Hill, Every kind of Teason was given, exccpt what appeared to be the only true one—vis., that the large family was mot the regult of @ residence in the slums, but the cause of It, and the possession of wealth argues the presene of brains and pra- who {# naturally unwilling * large family to lives of toll and the partition of his estate inte « Giterent sharon, ELATI BAHIB. eee 1 em glad there ts one woman who has the courage to express her opinion on @ subject that Fequires more thought than any other, and which receives lesa, If those who call her “old maid’ and “sour grapes’ would make « tour of the slume of any city, I am sure they would think @ litte as abe dos, 1 don't know that « tax would remedy the evtl, but I do think that & missionary who could teach the miserably poor to see the enormity of their crime in perpetuating their misery and poverty would do far more good than the .2e who preacties the Gospel to all mations, It 19 well eaough to speak of equal chances, free school, @c., but what about the children who are not fed nor clothed enough to attend @ free echool? Aad woat about the thousands who are shut out of our public schools for waat of room? I have no objection to chil- rem, but 1 heartily indorse the sentiments of any one who thinks there should be fewer and better people in the world, and no one should nave more children than he can properiy train and educate, be that one or @ dosen,—Mra. W. W. C., New- ark, Nd. 1 agree with ‘MC. Bm." that people are too poor, shiftless or idle, to bring up in de- cency, if nothing more, @ tamily of more than two oF thre ehildren aboule be taxed; if not taxed, something ahould be done to prevent the bringing into this world of a brood of ‘fowers of the earth (as oue correspondent puts 19 exist as best they may in dark, loathesome tene- ‘mente, among the vilest of the vile—for it is in Just such places that we find thousands of these Poor, atckiy, tainted ‘flowers."* 1 think if your correspondent ‘West Kighteenth Street’ would live for @ few weeks on the east aid Among the poor, ignorant, degraded beings, he would wish for the sake of the “Sowers” them- selves that something would be done to pre- Vent thelr being brought into this world and forced to Hve im suc unproductive-of-any-good soll, 1 love children dearly, and my very Jove for them prompts me to indorse ““M, C, E's" suggestions—One Who is Neither an Old Maid hor @ Childless Wife, e 6 8 Instead of depreciation, I think “'M. ©. B."* de- Serves encomium, as a woman exceptionally broad- minded and of sound judgment, Granted that children are the ‘flowers of creation,”’ 1s the spec- tacle of flowers insuMiciently mourished and im- properly attended to a pleasing and edifying one? Those who are eo strongly impressed with the Deaullee of indiscriminate and thoughtless breeding should ramble about the tenement dis- tricts ef New York and ether cities and there feast their enthusiastic and eanotimonious eyes upon the “Bowers” produced im suck charming protusion.—Falr Play. . ee ' Good for you, Mary ©, Eaton, because you waat to Rave the children taken oare of and have a chanoa How they are raking you! Never mind, Mary! I love the little people, every one of especially some under my own roof that amma,” but I love them well enough to want te g've them the comforis aad pleasures of ohildhood—agvantages which they must have order to make the after life worth living— which I could not do if tmey were to be many more tn the little You and 1, Mary are only clamoring for justice for the children, 2 for thelr extermination,—For Children's Rights, Greenwich, Coma, eee Baby tax, oh! This country ts degenerating in! © mad factory. I have known people who, not 0 many years ago, submitted to an ordeal by placing tt tn th cattle pen and driving the herd over, If it es caped trampling to death it was permitted to live, Females were discounted; dose that strike you, MaryI—P. M, J. 1 and many friends sincerely wish that your \dtotie correspondent who aigns ‘Mary C, Eaton’ could be spanked publicly for uttering such non- ‘sense as taxing poor people encumbered with more than three children, I wonder bow it would ‘any, and bow thie Malthusian “lady” could ea- force the payment of such a tax. She ought to go to Africa and spare her fellow- citizens the reading of her nonsensical epistles, She must be the ugliest and nastiest of old maids, A Happy, Toough Not Rich, Paterfamilian, . 1 think two children are enogh for most parenta to support and give them a decent education, and those people who bring into existence ant lea, knowing at the same time that nothing better than poverty and misery awaits them, are worse than {dlota—Criterion, Mor+ power to your elbow, Mary C. Eaton, for having the courage of your convictions I am not an old maid, but am married and have chil- dren, If those who think you are eo unnatural woulé read Gen, Booth’s book om “Darkest Eng- land" they would find that three thousand chil- dren in London alone go to heaven through fam every yaar, Would it mot be better if these little martyrs were never brought into the world? 1 am an English woman and a lover of children. “BRL —— —____ “EVENING WORLD" GUIDE-BOoK. New York--XXXIV.--The Reform Club. Not Contagie ‘They say there are microbes ta «Kise! Guch stories really age us; We've often tried, but never found ‘That Kisses were contagious, —Detroit Free Press, the front door early this morning.—Pick-Me-U On and Of. ‘When to be bis abe promieed, Ringing words were sald; When broken their engagement, Of-hand remarks were made, —Detrott Tribune, How's That, U ‘Temperance Orator—When the rich man was in torment, what was {t be besought the poor and lowly Lazarus to bring bim to quench bie thirst? Bot whiskey, nor yet beer, but water, my friends show we Voice—Shows ua where you testotallers ge to!— Pics-Me-Un - 7; and what does that oughly these daye It is all through and all over city. But it has tts centres of particular in- tensity, and one of these is in the building at 233 Fifth avenue, corner of Twenty-seventh street, shown i the accompanying picture, This ts the headquarters of the Reform Club, The Re- form Club 1s not ® social fastitution. It ts busl- eas It forms and grasps and circulates Ideas economical government. It has over 100 resident members, and nearly 1,600 no: Nita's Renovated Evenia “Aa a rule I detest renovated cloak sald Nita. “My pink satin skirt, how- ever, amiably retains a great measure of {ta pristine freshness, so perhaps it will lend itself gracefully to the full lace | world, The late Mrs. R. B. Stuart's cok |Tection would easily sell for several hun dred thousand dollars; and Mra, Wille jam C. Whitney kept laces worth $0,- 000 to $70,000, which her daughter Paulins inherits. Mrs. Gerard, Mrs. John Jacob Astor and Mrs. A. T. Stewart were the most thorough connolsseurs of real lace in the United States, At present the only lady who has made the collection or real laces a study 1s Mrs, Jesse Gellg man, Mrs, Herman Oelrichs has @ lace dress made in Puris which cost ever $10,000, Te Take Out Indelib! jae, Madge.—To remove the indelible ink stains from the handkerchiefs steep them in a little chiorine water for about half an hour, then wash in ammonia water, which will obliterate the ataina, then wash in clear water. They may also be removed by spreading the cloth with the ink marks over a basin fille@ bodice and sleeves 1 have designed for its improvement, with the short ever- Jacket of pale mauve velvet lined with pink and buttoned with paste, tabbed round the decolletage, and outlined with some cream-colored insertion.” o Jelly. One box of gelatine. Pour on it one Pint of cold water. After standing ten tainutes add one pint of boiling water, stirring frequently, Put on the stove to timmer slowly until thoroughly dissolved. ‘Take ten medium-sized oranges and two lemons; squeeze out the juice and pulp; strain it and add one quart of granulated sugar. Mix all with the gelatine and tarn into moulds to stiffen, Miss Faure Writes Poetry. Miss Faure, the younger daughter of M. Faure, the new French President, is literary in her tastes, and has writ- ten @ good deal of poetry. Some Beautiful Laces. The laces of the Astor family are valued at $200,000, and those of the Van- erbilts at $500,000, The Pope's lace treasures are said to be worth $75,000; those of the Queen of England $75,000, and those of the Princess of Wales $250,- 000, The Princess of Wales says she is fond of old lace, but that she cannot af- ford to by it. She gets very beautiful collections in presents, however, and on the whole her assortment is probably as valuable as that of many New York ladies, It is said that New York buys with hot water, then moisten the marks with tincture of lodine and tmmediately, after take a feather and moisten the Parts stained by fodine with a solution’ of hyposulphate of soda or caustie potassa or soda until the color is re- moved, then let the cloth dip in the hot water. After @ while wash well and ary. One of the minor vexations of the or derly housewife is the persistency with which shoes which have been carefully tucked away in thelr proper shoe-bag will fall from the pockets and lie upon the floor, This may be remedied by mak- ing the bag's pockets very deep and by never neglecting to put the boots inte those pockets with the heels downward, Otherwise they are apt te tip out frem their own weight, Catlets of Cold Mutton. Divide the remains of a cold nack of mutton into neat cutlets, trimming off some of the fat; make a good batter with milk, flour and eggs, dip the cut- lets in it and throw them into a frying pan full of bolling lard, let them ac- quire a nice golden color on both sides, and serve hot, piled up round @ centre of green peas or French beans Gloves Neatly Mended. To mend gloves neatly commence by working with a glove needle and cotten thread, pu. @ buttonhole stitch all around the hole, In this work another row and eo on until it fs completely filled up with these delicately made stitches, Pound Seed Cake. One pound butter beaten te a creamy one pound sifted lump sugar; one pound ficur, well dried; eight eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, and caraway, seeds to taste. Mix these ingredients and beat all well together for one hour; put the batter into a tin lined with paper and buttered; bake in a moderate oven for one and one-half hours, LETTERS, [TMs column ta open to evergbody whe has @ complatnt to make, a grievance to ventilate, in formation to give, a subject of general interest te tacuas or a public service to acknowledge, and wh can put the idea into less than 100 wort, Lon tera cannes b¢ printed, | alge Not a Single: Gov. Gre: ‘To the Editor: Herewith 19 @ copy of a letter recently re- ceived by @ single-taxer from the Governor of Mamachusetts tn reply to @ letter asking him to! investigate single-tax principles: COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, BOSTON, Feb, 9, 1895, Dear Mr. M.1 Tt Is always cheering to find somebody who has a panacea for existng evils, | even If you do not believe in panaceas yourself. ‘When taxation ceases to be a burden under any | system {t wil’ be when the fre of the sun ta exhausted and Henry George and other well- meaning zealots have mingled with the elements, They men who never did—and who never will—4o any good to thelr fellow-men They) simply make them more uncomfortable—they have lo remedy—no practical ability; they simply find} fault, What you refer to in my message ts alm- ply @ quotayjon from Edmund Burke, and only shows how old thie sort of complaint ts, I Judge from what you say that you are In favor of the wort of revenue system inaugurated by the present able and wise Administration. I am not. Yours truly, FT, GREENHALGE. Ace Is Low in Cuttii To the Editor: A party playing euchre at a meeting of « pro- gressive euchre club were in @iscussion over @ prise for which two persona were tied, and tn- | stead of playing It off they decided to cut the cards G. cut @ jack, and Y, cut an ace, and G., firmament @ stu, doth pure and brilliant, for, without nesitation, the awestest, clearest voice ever heard in years comes from a little unknown irl n ouc midst, Never mind how or when, but not #0 long ago I heard this human atghtta- gale, this songbird, this little Americas tark carol out the very simple old ballad of “I'm Dreaming of Hallie." There are voices of greater range, technique and power, but none, I warrant, with the divine melody that pours tteelf trem that girl's throat, Bhe does not sing: she 1s uncon- sclous of effsrt, only that divine voice rises ever and ever, It ie not “Hallie but some sonata, some great epitomisation of the world's tragedy, the world’s despair, with the soul of passion, the volce of beauty, And all this that stirs and haunts us comes from the slim, brown throat of @ girl—a girl with clear eyes, dark hair, rich Southern coloring—a gitt w fs all unconscious of her gift, who is simple and true and loving, and sings because she must, For the rest, she ts ‘Ml bel cantatrice,” and public al or “Annie Deans’ or “Auld Robin {nto vocal gems, amethyst, ruby and brititants, EVILO YELKREB. Good Government To the Editor: T have a complaint to make. Last Sunday morning | glided into a “‘speak-easy” to enjoy the delights of a seductive cocktall and—breal the law. While sipping the delicious nectar I got into @ discussion of the raid on the Broadway bill- {ard rooms, when suddenly there arose the most Greadtul racket as tf fifty brase banda all play- ing different tunes, combined with screeching and bell-ringing; it was awful. I was told by the distracted proprietor *hat it came from a Chris- tan ‘foss-house,”” and that It was of dally and espectally Sunday occurrence. Now, I ask, cannot something be done to prevent such disturbances on the ‘Lord's day? Now, a word of advice te prevention soctetios: If these drivelling, cante ing, lon pharisatcal, sanctimonious bype- claiming that tn cutting tm euchre jack ts high, | wanted the prize It was left for me to decide | and I -1ve tee prize to G., and explained to the company that the king was the highest card im cutting, queen next and jack next, and there- | fore G was entitled to the prize. D. bet me that | 1 was wrong in stating that the king was bigh, | claiming the jack ts bigh as G. nad sald, and we left it for you te deciéa By doing so you will oblige ww o Diamoi To the Editor In “The Evening World of Feb. 1%, under the heading. “Diamonds Are Free," somebody hi 14 that no rough diamonds have been eut in this eountry—oniy an occasional rough stona The following firme have been employing from five to twenty men for the last Mfteen years: Randel, waremon & Billings, E. L, Aurich & Co, H. Fera, D. Herrman, D. Da Sola Mendes, 1. Langer, Becker & Kohl and some more. As for myse't, I have doen a Giamond-cutter (American) | since 1851, AMERICAN DIAMOND-CUTTER, Amerie: Plenty of Ni To the PAltor: If Miss A, Govl# or Miss Vanderbilt would! marry some poor American gentleman and keep the aoney here, where thelr forefathers made and scraped St together, it would be far more be- coming than going abroad to marry high-col- fed supposed gentleman, with a long title and a depleted treasury, I consider it very bad taste. ‘Three cheers for our American men. From a lover of ber county, BEAUTIFUL AMERICA, To the Editor: I would ask thom who may read those few lines to preserve them for future referen that in thme to come they may declare themscly the original discoverers of “ll bel canto,* and so reap merited glory, At present there ts a painful lack of freah operatic talent, True, we have @ voice of allken beauty In the person of Mme Melba and an artist of dramatic gifts in Mme. Calve, but In neither do we find « re- incarnated Grist or Albani or Patt, and of con- “0 resident subserivera The Club was organised ip a 4 cert singers we have none, But I predict that 4m @ few years there will rise ia the concert erites don't wish the ‘Goo-Goos" kicked owt next November they had better give us the same Privileges they expect for themselves, They never feem to learn that the American people love Iibe erty so well that if they can't get it from the politicians they'll buy {t from the police, Of, in other words, New Yorkers not only like good government, but they like mized 4rinks, beer,! billiards, dances, baseball, &c., and if it comes to @ question of choosing between the two they would rather have the . ‘er than the former. A CITIZEN WITH A VOTE. at's Names, To the Fattor: ‘Will some reader tnform me why employers. call thelr servants by thelr Christian names? § know @ married lady, forty-three years of age, Who was employed as the nurse of two children, ages six and four years. She was requested te call them “Master Edward" and ‘Miss Rhode,” while they always called her Lucy. Could met more respect be shown to servant girls? MARIB, Fishkill, . A White Cat with Misfit Eyes, To the Editor: ‘ I have acon mentioned im your- paper the scarcity of cats with white tall 1 have ene, about six months old, pure white and the tai} the same; there te mot one hair of any ether color about him a Tn addition to color, be has one china-biue eyq the ether yellowish green, MRS, BLACKFORD, White Piaias, N. ¥, To the Editor: Come, girls, ehange your opinion about your biue-coated ment Where are you leaving the’ lovely gray-coated leiter-carriers? The blues are, the ones who do all the Who bring you all your mail? The deag riers, of course, MAUD CLANCY, tom Letter not in it. ‘They a work, 1 have @ letter of recommendation to my grandfather trom George Washington, dated Phila. deiphia, Feb, 8 110%, This letter bas George Washington's genuine signature. da G, dereey Ony, M. de . ) ae |